AIML Research Scientist PhD STEM Expert

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 9 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Researcher and Technical Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $50$100/hour
Commitment: 30 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

Design challenging real-world STEM problems to evaluate model reasoning and problem-solving.
Implement tasks using Python in an agentic development environment.
Analyze model/agent behavior to diagnose reasoning gaps and improve performance.
Develop reproducible and testable deliverables with clear specifications and deterministic tests.
Collaborate with AI research teams to enhance model outputs and training data quality.
Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and project goals.

Qualifications

Must-Have

Deep expertise in data science machine learning finance and/or Python-based coding.
Active or recently graduated PhD (Top 20 U.S.-based school).
Strong research background in frontier STEM topics.
Ability to engage reliably for 30 hours/week primarily on weekdays.
Demonstrated technical output such as high-quality open-source contributions.
Comfort reading and reasoning about agent behavior traces to diagnose failure modes.

Preferred

Familiarity with agentic frameworks and OSS ecosystems like LangChain MetaGPT AutoGen AutoGPT CrewAI LlamaIndex BabyAGI SuperAGI CAMEL AgentGPT Dify.

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About the job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey. Position: Researcher and Technical Expert Type: Contract Compensati...